Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Ric Tibbetts wrote: And yeah, I feel better now. Thanks. (gotta lay off that late night coffee...;) Ric Hey bud, have some brews, it'll help you deal with life's little shitty moments... -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 00:22, J. Craig Woods wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: And yeah, I feel better now. Thanks. (gotta lay off that late night coffee...;) Ric Hey bud, have some brews, it'll help you deal with life's little shitty moments... LOL Yeah, maybe so.. maybe so. But

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Rick wrote: I'm tired of hostile help lists that love nothing more than to flame anyone who dares to have a contradictory opinion. In an open list there are always ppl who would be better off to a newsgroup. But most times only thos ppl get flamed who just state this or that sucks! and don't

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Brian Parish
The Mandrake community newsletter stated explicitly that it was included. I'm not gonna touch the comparison to Win XP. Like someone else said - fully loaded with solitaire and notepad! What a package! cheers Brian On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 19:07, Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-26 at

Re: [expert] C-Media 8738 won't give six speaker sound - followup

2002-03-27 Thread Tom McLaughlin
I just was just playing some more with my computer and I found out that my front speakers jack going into the computer was loose. The front right channel now works. Definately something I should have checked first and feel a little red for. Now the problem is just the center. If I disconnect

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If you care, blast your senator with some firm emails and phone calls, plus get your friends to do it also. We can't let them take our rights away. I for one love Linux and Mandrake enough that I'm willing to Fight. E-Mail is largely ignored,

Re: [expert] auto login on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread David
Edit your /etc/sysconfig/autologin file to read AUTOLOGIN=no. Dave FemmeFatale said onto me: FemmeFatale Dodd, David J wrote: FemmeFatale FemmeFatale I have just loaded 8.2 and so far it is working, got my orinoco card to FemmeFatale work without a hitch. One question though

Re: [expert] How does one place icon on the Gnome Desktop

2002-03-27 Thread Mark Williamson
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 19:10, Mark Williamson wrote: Hi Everyone, A simple question.. I haven't had a look at gnome for quite some time.. I am trying to add some Icons to the Gnome desktop to a applications such as Star Office The old way one used to use gmc, and use the third mouse

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread James
On 26 Mar 2002 21:48:21 -0800 Ric Tibbetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and hopefully I read right: The full title of this: The little operating system that could, and the little company that couldn't. Meaning of course Linux, and Mandrake. I'm a newly disgruntled user. Don't mis-read

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So, all you guys enjoying Linux? Enjoying the benefits of Mandrake? Great post, Lyvim. If not here, where would one go to share this kind of tyranny. I have already been watching this litigation as it has progressed. I am a member of EFF (Electronic Frontiers

Re: [expert] No sound after 8.2 install

2002-03-27 Thread David
Stephen Boulet said onto me: Stephen On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:31 am, David wrote: Stephen Stephen Is your card supported under alsa? Look in/lib/modules/%kernel Stephen version/alsa for a .gz file that is named after your sound card. There Stephen might be more than one that

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread civileme
Brian Parish wrote: Hang on Ric - I won't flame you, but I will correct your math. StarOffice 6 comes IN the boxed set, so let's start by revising the figures down to $168. Now we can flame accurately ;-) Brian On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 16:48, Ric Tibbetts wrote: The full title of this: The

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 04:06, J. Craig Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So, all you guys enjoying Linux? Enjoying the benefits of Mandrake? Great post, Lyvim. If not here, where would one go to share this kind of tyranny. I have already been watching this litigation as it has

Re: [expert] auto login on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dimecres 27 Març 2002 04:35, en Dodd, David J va escriure: I have just loaded 8.2 and so far it is working, got my orinoco card to work without a hitch. One question though maybe I did this on installation but when I boot up it auto logs into my user directory. How do I change this so it

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]

2002-03-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 03:56, David Guntner wrote: Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If you care, blast your senator with some firm emails and phone calls, plus get your friends to do it also. We can't let them take our rights away. I for one love Linux and Mandrake enough

Re: [expert] java plugin and mozilla 0.99 - OT

2002-03-27 Thread James
Old fart bad eyes. for reasons unkown I had it set to 20 . arrgh my apologies. James On 27 Mar 2002 03:11:08 -0300 Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and hopefully I read right: El mié, 27-03-2002 a las 02:30, James escribió: On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:27:19 -0700 Praedor Tempus

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 08:05 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 22:47, J. Craig Woods wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: Congratulations. For the home user, the cost of ownership of Mandrake has exceeded the cost of Win2k. And you can't even go down to the local software store

[expert] Host SMBus controller not enabled!??

2002-03-27 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, I'm trying to get lm-sensors to work on a Compaq 5670 Desktop running Mandrake Cooker (kernel-2.4.18) with partial success. Modules identified with sensors_detect and loading OK are: i2c-dev 4096 0 (unused) i2c-voodoo3 2824 0 (unused) eeprom

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 03:56, David Guntner wrote: E-Mail is largely ignored, and is an ineffective way to petition most representatives and senators. If you're going to petition them in a way that will be noticed, you still need to send

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Felix Miata
Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 22:30, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 16:48, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Seems to me that Linus' little free operating system is now costing as much as windows, without the benefit of the off the shelf software. Don't believe me? Add

Re: [expert] high load average

2002-03-27 Thread David Savolainen
Damian wrote: El mié, 27-03-2002 a las 00:30, David Savolainen escribió: hello all, Ever since I upgraded to 8.2, my load average will not drop below 1.00. From what I have been able to determine, the load average is a measure of jobs in the run queue. What job could be permanently

Re: [expert] setting monitor refresh rate from the CLI

2002-03-27 Thread Bill Davidson
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 01:25 am, J. Craig Woods wrote: Larry Sword wrote: If you are setting up from a terminal I would suggest using xf86config. It will step you through the setup. Larry Where are you finding xf86config? Is this a binary file somewhere? I am looking at 8.2, and I

Re: [expert] java plugin and mozilla 0.99 - OT

2002-03-27 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:56:12PM -0800, James said: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Old fart bad eyes. for reasons unkown I had it set to 20 . arrgh my apologies. James snip now THAT's what i call word wrapping ;oP I usually see

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread kwan
On 26 Mar 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Average charge per new releass: $69.00 per release. x 2 realeases per year. $138.00 Shipping: $15.00 per boxed set 30.00 The Club $10 per month x 12 (Remember, you need to belong to the $10 per month club to get Staroffice

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:17:34AM -0800, David Guntner said: Glad I was able to provide some useful information. Unfortunately, even though othe US congress is (slowly :) moving into the electronic age, they don't take as much note (if any, really) of E-Mail. It's easy to send, and they

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Radek Svoboda
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 16:59:16 -0500, Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (0.8K bytes): I just upgraded my machine from 8.1 to 8.2, and now whenever I try to access a page on the webserver I get something like: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. It

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi lx im not american... i really cant help that much but ask my relatives (and their friends) in the US to send the snail mails or emails to their respective senators. and yeah, good luck to all of us. but come to think of it, there are already a lot of users using linux in the US

RE: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Salovesh
-Original Message- From: Radek Svoboda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm subscribed to expert@ few weeks and I can't get out of wonder what the EXPERT mean. IMHO newbie@ is the proper list for over 50% questions on this expert@ list. I'm really disappointed. I guess expert must refer

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
civileme wrote: snip Anyway, enough said. Your post suggests you do not understand the difference between free (libre) and free(gratuit) at all. Nor do you appreciate that this will all go away very soon if such laws as SSSCA actually pass. Linux, and building home computers, will both

Re: [expert] pppd shutting down

2002-03-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
this is just from my bad memory, but I seem to remember a problem with some 56k 3com modems (I don't have a 3 com myself so I barely remember this) about certian chips having a problem about like you describe. must have been in the list... my guess is about the time 7.1 came out tho...

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]

2002-03-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 03:56, David Guntner wrote: Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If you care, blast your senator with some firm emails and phone calls, plus get your friends to do it also. We can't let them take our rights away. I for one love Linux and Mandrake enough that

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Roger == haaserd Roger writes: Roger In order to get the test-cgi script Roger in cgi-bin to work, I had to modify the commonhttpd.conf Directory / Roger setting to look like the 8.1 commonhttpd.conf settings: Roger Directory / Roger # Options -All -Multiviews

[expert] VIA 8233a patch and 8.2 kernel compile problems

2002-03-27 Thread Norman Carver
I have a motherboard with the new VIA vt8233a chip (which supports UDMA133). This chip is not recognized by the the Mandrake 8.2 kernel code, so I have only very slow disk access. I have gotten ahold of the 2.4.18 kernel patch that should allow this chip to be recognized. However, I am

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi laura --- Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says: [Mon Mar 25 17:56:06 2002] [error] [client 209.245.100.140] client denied by server configuration: /etc/httpd/htdocs Does that tell you what I should do? There is no /etc/httpd/htdocs. seems that /etc/httpd/htdocs is the new

Re: [expert] java plugin and mozilla 0.99

2002-03-27 Thread jipe
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:25:20 +0900 J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any1 get sodaplay.com to work on 0.99? it does not crash for me anymore, but still dont work. JG it works nice for me. i use java from www.blackdown.org bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] root mail going to nobody user.

2002-03-27 Thread Tim Holmes
| Tim Holmes wrote: | Calm down and listen. My question was is system mail for root going to | nobody. So the answer is | yes, not no. My apologies, I thought you were meant was ALL mail going to the nobody user. Misunderstood what you were saying. | | Tim are you sure? Indulge me, and run a

Re: [expert] devfs and hdparm

2002-03-27 Thread Gregory Margo
I had the same problem and solved it by turning it around. On the kernel command line, disable all dma, then turn it on for the ide controllers that need it. I couldn't see any other way. Grub boot line: kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.8-34.1mdk root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount ide=nodma ide0=dma

[expert] a second different IP for the same net-card.

2002-03-27 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List, A just start point would help me a lot. I think that Linux can support two different IPs for the same net-card. If right, can someone suggest me how to do it? Many thanks in advance. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de

Re: [expert] a second different IP for the same net-card.

2002-03-27 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi alan as root, try: #ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.100 up where eth0:1 is the 'aliased' NIC and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the new ip. i believe aliased nics are supposed to be compiled on the kernel to make it work ... so far, all the mdk versions i used support it off the box. the main config file

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ummm, _Either_ the boxed sets _OR_ the club will get you StarOffice and the non-free Apps. You do not need both. Thank you for clearing that one up. From a few comments made, there were others that were also confused about that one. It takes about $3-4 million to make one of these

Re: [expert] a second different IP for the same net-card.

2002-03-27 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Awesome! A very fast reply, thank you very very much Dianne. It worked gracefully. On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: hi alan as root, try: #ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.100 up where eth0:1 is the 'aliased' NIC and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the new ip. i believe aliased

[expert] ACPI

2002-03-27 Thread Lauri Lehtovaara
Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.2 to my Compaq Presario 700AE laptop. Now I'm wondering how to configure acpid and print battery information. Any advices? +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--- | Lauri Lehtovaara [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

[expert] Sound Advice: Favorite Audio Utils from the Experts

2002-03-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Recently on prompting from a friend I installed Realplayer version 8 and have been astounded by the number of international stations I can recieve. Besides Baldur's Gate 2 this is the most I've used my Aureal 8830 card of late! There are some talk shows I'd like to share with other friends

Re: [expert] Security issue in 8.2 msec?

2002-03-27 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi oscar, afaik, the DIRECTORY permission drwx--x--x would permit you to go to that directory but you cant see (r) or write (w) any files on it... however, if you know a certain file exists there, though you cant see it thru normal 'ls -l', you can see the file by specifying the filename you

[expert] problems in 8.2?????

2002-03-27 Thread dmyhand
To The List: Re: Problems with installing 8.2 System: Franken-Puter, 300MHz AMD K6-2, 256 RAM, 20 Gig HD, ATI Rage-ProII Video MoBo = FIC VA 503-A Background: Redhat and Mandrake have always successfully installed, but other distros have always had problems due to some

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread David Rankin
You know, I can sympathize. Not because the change is necessarily a bad thing, but more because of what the change represents. To me the shift signifies the beginning of the end of a wonderful era of camaraderie when the linux community worked together as one to develop the best product we

Re: [expert] root mail going to nobody user.

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Tim Holmes wrote: # grep mailbox_command /etc/postfix/main.cf # The mailbox_command parameter specifies the optional external # Unlike other Postfix configuration parameters, the mailbox_command #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a $EXTENSION

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread David Guntner
G. T. Francisco, III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:17:34AM -0800, David Guntner said: Glad I was able to provide some useful information. Unfortunately, even though othe US congress is (slowly :) moving into the electronic age, they don't take as much note

[expert] re: Module Compile Errors in 2.4.18-6mdk

2002-03-27 Thread J Herzfeld
I am having the same problem. I cannot seem to get any modules compiled with my kernel. Even with only one module I get an error. I reduced my number of modules to zero and that was the only way to get a clean compile. Of course the kernel was huge, and useless. I won't have time to play

[expert] Has anynone tried CrossOver Office?

2002-03-27 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Has anyone tried CrossOver office on 8.2? I wonder whether it really works. Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Module Compile Errors in 2.4.18-6mdk

2002-03-27 Thread K Montgomery
This happened to me when I tried to compile a 2.4.18 Mandrake kernel on Mandrake 8.1 a little while back. I had downloaded and installed the kernel-source and kernel-headers RPMs from cooker (I think they were version 2.4.18-something and 2.4.17-something, respectively, at the time). I was

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: seems that /etc/httpd/htdocs is the new DocumentRoot on the default config of the new version of apache on 8.2 ... it was /var/www/html on 8.1 apache. maybe you can try changing the DocumentRoot entry on /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf to /var/www/html and

Re: [expert] ACPI

2002-03-27 Thread civileme
Lauri Lehtovaara wrote: Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.2 to my Compaq Presario 700AE laptop. Now I'm wondering how to configure acpid and print battery information. Any advices? +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--- | Lauri Lehtovaara [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Radek Svoboda wrote: I'm subscribed to expert few weeks and I can't get out of wonder what the EXPERT mean. IMHO newbie is the proper list for over 50% questions on this expert list. I'm really disappointed. Best regards, Radek Svoboda RSC - Production Try about 90% of the

[Fwd: Re: [expert] root mail going to nobody user.]

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Well let's try this again... Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] root mail going to nobody user. Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:13:38 -0600 From: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[expert] Problems with sshd

2002-03-27 Thread James
All, my gateway box just started this one. It refuses all ssh connections from every box but intself. (outside or inside the network) The only error message is fatal: xfree: NULL POINTER given as argument. X isn't installed on this box. ssh_config and sshd_config both have X11

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread civileme
David Rankin wrote: You know, I can sympathize. Not because the change is necessarily a bad thing, but more because of what the change represents. To me the shift signifies the beginning of the end of a wonderful era of camaraderie when the linux community worked together as one to develop

Re: [expert] high load average

2002-03-27 Thread Angus Beath
David, it may be a kernel process that's hung up somewhere. Having just had my machine doing weird things with load, check and see if you have chkrootkit installed - it hung my machine for quite some time for no apparent reason. Other than that, send a ps -ef it shows everything. Maybe

[expert] msec and xsane

2002-03-27 Thread gikoreno
Hi everyone, I just checked the newbie and expert lists, and couldn't find anything that answered this question... I just installed Mandrake 8.2, but kept my previous Mdk 8.1 /home partition. I used to have xsane working, and I ran scannerdrake and I can't seem to get the scanner working

Re: [expert] setting monitor refresh rate from the CLI

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Bill Davidson wrote: On Wednesday 27 March 2002 01:25 am, J. Craig Woods wrote: Larry Sword wrote: If you are setting up from a terminal I would suggest using xf86config. It will step you through the setup. Larry Where are you finding xf86config? Is this a binary file

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi --- J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: seems that /etc/httpd/htdocs is the new DocumentRoot on the default config of the new version of apache on 8.2 ... it was /var/www/html on 8.1 apache. maybe you can try changing the DocumentRoot entry on

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Larry Sword
J. Craig Woods wrote: Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: seems that /etc/httpd/htdocs is the new DocumentRoot on the default config of the new version of apache on 8.2 ... it was /var/www/html on 8.1 apache. maybe you can try changing the DocumentRoot entry on

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [expert] The little operating system that could Is this LSB compatible, yet? (when in fact no distro can really claim to be because

[expert] nss_ldap slightly broken (Mandrake should fix)

2002-03-27 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, Before some else gets tripped up.. In Mandrake 8.2 it's nss_ldap is slightly broken, where it does not give out a list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member of. This was working with Mandrake 8.1, so I grabbed Src rpm (nss_ldap-173-1mdk.src.rpm) and investigated..

Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: i beg to disagree ... on mandrake apache rpms, you dont have to specify the DocumentRoot on its httpd.conf, it is specified on commonhttpd.conf which is called by httpd.conf file as an Include item. Your version must be different from mine. I have

Re: [expert] Linux Laptop pcmcia troubles

2002-03-27 Thread Kevin
On Monday 25 March 2002 10:38 pm, you wrote: Hi listmembers, i was hoping someone out there might be able to help me with this I have installed MDK8.0 on a compaq armada 7400 ,everything wors fine ,except for the nic a pcmcia D-Link-660+ , when I try to configure the network I get

[expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system

2002-03-27 Thread Mark Williamson
Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system? any issues with NFS when using either of the file system? We are running here with ext3, but nothing is being said which would be a better choice.. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread Brian Parish
Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a bit more stable. Good enough for me. I'm

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sure wish I had nothing to do but fight all this crap. It's too bad that we can't expect our politicians to do the right thing. It seems that we have to fight all the time. But, it's going to take more than 1 Congressman to do something like

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a bit more stable.

[expert] Abiword MDK-8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Fedneg
Hello: I can't find Abiword in MDK-8.2 download version. I've tried to install latest cooker *.src.rpm but compilation gives me errors. Finally, I tried to install the rpm binaries from the project home page. Again got errors: libpng.so.2 is needed. Has someone got installed the latest

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 21:19, Mark Williamson wrote: Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system? any issues with NFS when using either of the file system? We are running here with ext3, but nothing is being said which would be a better choice.. I don't know if there are

Re: [expert] Abiword MDK-8.2

2002-03-27 Thread Damian
El mar, 26-03-2002 a las 15:01, Fedneg escribió: Hello: I can't find Abiword in MDK-8.2 download version. I've tried to install latest cooker *.src.rpm but compilation gives me errors. Finally, I tried to install the rpm binaries from the project home page. Again got errors: libpng.so.2

Re: [expert] Opera on Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread David
Dany Allard said onto me: Dany First of all, great job on Mandrake 8.2! Dany My install was flawless and the most applications are running perfectly. Dany Dany A quick question, has anyone got Opera 6.0b1 to work on Mandrake 8.2? Uh, yeah. If you're having a problem, maybe you should

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
FemmeFatale wrote: I believe Civilme's exact words on Ext3 were: An abortion waiting to happen. I quoteth. ;p Femme -- Like so many different variations on your machine, filesytems should be made with reference to as many criteria as possible. Yes, speed is good but what if you go

Re: [expert] sensor readings

2002-03-27 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
Brian Parish wrote: After having followed the: What would cause system to just stop? thread I finally got around to getting sensors going on my main box. The output I get is: eeprom-i2c-0-52 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter eeprom-i2c-0-53 Adapter:

Re: [expert] Module Compile Errors in 2.4.18-6mdk

2002-03-27 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
I do, but unless someone posts the .config its probably near impossible to find a solution. Andrew Carlson wrote: Is anyone else having problems with this? Here is the output of my module compile: P.S. It happens on more than one module, from more than one subsystem. In file included from